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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    Today I received my replacement Mini 3 Pro. Thanks to all, who helped me!
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    Ah right, I remember! Sadly we can't really find out for certain what the cause has been. For myself I can say I learned a lot through this case. Before this incident I didn't know there would be flight log files with such a lot of information. And luckily there is software to analyze the...
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    This would have been my next step using your analysis for some more deeper questions to the tech-team. But this morning I received an email from the DJI support team saying that the drone will now be replaced free of charge. The reason given by the engineers is as follows: "They [the...
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    DJI says, they can't send me the .DAT file, because they don't have it, too. They "only" have the flight log, that the RC uploaded to the DJI servers. I don't know what kind of file this is, but they say, it's not the .DAT file. And they also mentioned, the .DAT files wouldn't be deleted after...
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    @BudWalker, do you know if DJI has the .DAT files after synching flights to their servers? the DJI support told me, I could find the .DAT files on my RC in the "MCDatFlightRecords"-Folder. Of course I had already checked this folder, but sadly it's empty. Just trying to confirm if someone...
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    This may be a translation fault by myself. The original text was in German so I translated it via deepL for everyone to be able to understand. The translation is not quite accurate and should say fault or error instead of defect. Sry for this inconvenience! Edit: This is the original text from...
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    Great idea! Sure, i will try this! Edit: File is requested
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    Today I received an answer from DJI regarding my flyaway case: "Flight time: 2024-01-27 22:13:04 GMT+8 MC SN: XXXXX FLY(90) BAT SN: XXXXX 1. The aircraft worked under Sport mode after took off. 2. Flight Time T=00:40, Relative Height H=5.0m, The GPS signal was weak, affected its...
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    Thank you guys for your further participation in this case! I really know, that I made a mistake by flying without waiting for the satellites and also for not doing the right pre-flight checks. I'm totally aware I maybe could have prevent this crash by doing these steps before flying over the...
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    Hey, thanks for the welcome and the detailed analysis of the flight @slup! This was very helpful to see the technical details in these graphs and getting your interpretation and opinion on this case! I can understand that it seems like a fully pilot error because of flying without GPS lock, and...
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    DJI Mini 3 Pro | Uncontrolled sinking leads to ditch into ocean despite countermeasures

    Hey there, some days ago my DJI Mini 3 Pro ditched into the ocean despite I was pushing the up-stick. Because I saw some whales nearby the beach I was very excited and ran to get my drone, quickly started it and took off from a place I used for take off on the days before. At this moment I was...